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Fred Mills,
Seattle Weekly,
25 June 2003

RUGBY, ENGLAND, SPRING 87: Four scruffy twentysomethings are sprawled across secondhand bed mattresses arranged at asymmetrical angles on the floor of VHF Studios. The smoke from their roll-ups and spliffs gets so thick that the engineer routinely disconnects facilitys smoke alarm prior to each days session, which can range from intensely focused overdubbing to jam-until-the-tape-runs-out free-for-alls to simply laying around in candlelit darkness and passing comment on playbacks of the previous days work. Ultimately, from this near-womblike setting will emerge one of the greatest psychedelic albums of all time.

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